Thought for Today
Still very impatient, I wanted the whole deal right away. That's why I related so well to the story about a wide-eyed new person and an oldtimer. When the newcomer approached the oldtimer, envying his accomplishments and many years of sobriety, the oldtimer slapped down his hand like a gavel and said, "I'll trade you even! My thirty years to your thirty days right now!" He knew what the newcomer had yet to find out: that true happiness is found in the journey, not the destination.
--Alchoholics Anonymous, Part III, Gutter Bravado, pages 210-211
Still very impatient, I wanted the whole deal right away. That's why I related so well to the story about a wide-eyed new person and an oldtimer. When the newcomer approached the oldtimer, envying his accomplishments and many years of sobriety, the oldtimer slapped down his hand like a gavel and said, "I'll trade you even! My thirty years to your thirty days right now!" He knew what the newcomer had yet to find out: that true happiness is found in the journey, not the destination.
--Alchoholics Anonymous, Part III, Gutter Bravado, pages 210-211
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